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RACE: Are We So Different?

0000017c-e1ee-d5b7-affd-edeea8700000The traveling exhibit RACE: Are We So Different? is now on display at the Rochester Museum & Science Center. WXXI, RMSC and several other community partners are working together to promote awareness about racial issues and to foster meaningful conversations about we can improve our understanding of one another. WXXI's reporting on RACE: Are We So Different? is supported by a grant from the New York Council for the Humanities.

Race and the Justice System

WXXI News | By Beth Adams

Published January 31, 2013 at 2:35 PM EST

This evening WXXI is hosting a screening of The Ken Burns/Sarah Burns documentary The Central Park Five, that examines the case of five black and Latino teenagers who were wrongly convicted of rape. WXXI’s Beth Adams speaks with attorney Lamar Jackson about racial profiling and the justice system in Rochester.

WXXI's reporting on RACE: Are We So Different? is supported by a grant from the New York Council for the Humanities.